Life After People
Role: Art Director | Designer
Creative Director: Brian Huffman
Creative Project Lead: Rich Rosario
Production: Nuno Fascia, Stuart Myers
Project Manager: Wes Bent, Monica Singh
Editor: Jon Emmet
Motion Graphics: Jeff Gess
Head of Creative History Channel: Mary Traina
The key art for the new season of Life After People captures a haunting vision of the world reclaimed. This shows a close, reverent look at the Lincoln Memorial, now cracked, eroded, and overgrown with foliage. The once-pristine marble of an American icon is veiled in vines and moss, as nature patiently undoes the marks of civilization. It’s a moment frozen between beauty and loss. It is the silence after humanity’s voice fades.
This visual anchors the show’s premise in a single, potent image: what remains when we are gone. By using the familiar figure of Lincoln, the artwork taps into the emotional gravity of human achievement and the fragility of legacy. The greenery crawling across stone becomes both a symbol of renewal and erasure. It is the world continuing without us, reshaping our monuments into part of its own living architecture.
The composition’s stillness is deliberate. No movement, no people, only the quiet persistence of time. The color palette shifts from civilization’s cold grays to the deep greens and golds of nature’s return, suggesting that even in absence, life endures.
The cracked and overgrown Lincoln stands as both memorial and metaphor:
a monument to what we built, and a testament to what will outlast us.
